Born in London in 1972, Will moved to Cambridge six years later, after his parents' divorce. He graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in Combined Studies, specialising in Chinese politics. He then lived and worked in India for two years as a journalist; first for a year as a Delhi-correspondent with Sunday, a Calcutta-based news weekly. While working with Sunday, he interviewed the Dalai Lama, as well as Phoolan Devi (India's Bandit Queen, who was assassinated in 2001). He then moved to Mumbai, where he began working for Reuters, covering everything from the Stock Market to coconut tree climbing in Kerala. After a brief interlude in Thailand, where he made a film about Burmese refugees and the Karen guerrillas, he moved to Hong Kong and began working as a financial journalist. After a year with a New York-based Institutional Investor, he joined UK company Risk, editing Asia Risk. It was in Hong Kong that he also met his wife-to-be, Maria. A year after joining Risk, he transferred to New York. Maria joined him, and they married in December 1998. His original dream, however, was to write a novel, and so a year after moving to New York, Will plucked up the courage to leave his job in pursuit of writing. Since then, he has written three books: Paperback Raita (Simon & Schuster 2002), White Ghosts (Simon & Schuster 2004), and The Weight of the City (Simon & Schuster 2007), and he and Maria have two sons.
He is currently working on a new project for 2009.
Bibliography:
Paperback Raita, Simon & Schuster, 2001
White Ghosts, Simon & Schuster, 2001
The Weight of the City, Simon & Schuster, 2004
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